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Why ATFM?
Innovative approach
While the majority of air traffic within mature markets such as
the United States and Europe is essentially domestic, in Asia
Pacific, there is a wide variety. There are hubs where 100% of
the air traffic is international and countries with a large domestic
demand. Therefore, stakeholders must have visibility to traffic
outside of their airspace. Collaboration and data sharing with
neighbouring countries is key to improving this visibility.
Unlike any of the other operational ATFM systems, the eight
Asia Pacific nations are coming together to test a multi-nodal
approach, which will increase the visibility of cross-border
traffic that will impact each nations airspace.
The concept outlined includes creating traffic management
initiatives for the region, which will allow demand and capacity
predictions. If an airport is deemed to be constrained,
arrival slots will be allocated to airlines. The airlines are then
responsible for specifying how to absorb the delay, be it holding
passengers at the gate, on the aircraft on the ground or in-flight.
Since the initiative kicked off in June 2014, there has also been
a number of human-in-the-loop (HITL) scenarios, which brings
Future implementation
This six-month operational trial is the just the first step towards
ATFM implementation. The capabilities of each ANSP involved
needs to be understood, including the compliance of their
departure towers, with penalties for non-compliance based on
agreed-upon performance metrics.
However, the benefits that should be evident after the trial
will encourage all ANSPs to continue down the multi-nodal
integration path as they see the cost savings, environmental
benefits and increased capacity involved.
The trial is unique as it will bring together ANSPs, airlines and airports.
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